Factors associated with county-level differences in US drug-related mortality rates

SM Monnat - American journal of preventive medicine, 2018 - Elsevier
Introduction Over the past 2 decades, drug-related deaths have grown to be a major US
public health problem. County-level differences in drug-related mortality rates are large. The …

Macroeconomic conditions and health: Inspecting the transmission mechanism

E Colombo, V Rotondi, L Stanca - Economics & Human Biology, 2018 - Elsevier
We study the relationship between macroeconomic conditions and self-reported health in a
large sample of Italian individuals, focusing on the mediating role played by health …

[HTML][HTML] Is recession bad for your mental health? The answer could be complex: evidence from the 2008 crisis in Spain

J Moncho, P Pereyra-Zamora… - BMC medical research …, 2018 - Springer
Background We explored the impact of 2008 recession on the prevalence of mental health
problems in Spain. Methods Repeated cross-sectional survey design. Datasets from 2006 …

Economic downturns, retirement and long-term cognitive function among older Americans

P Hessel, CJ Riumallo-Herl, AK Leist… - The Journals of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Objective Workers approaching retirement may be particularly vulnerable to economic
downturns. This study assesses whether exposure to economic downturns around …

Historical background to research on job loss, unemployment, and job search

N Feather - Oxford handbook of job loss and job search, 2018 - books.google.com
This chapter provides a selective review of past research on job loss, unemployment, and
job search up to the beginning of the 1990s. The Great Depression studies in the 1930s at …

A comparison of diabetes care of patients attending Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital and Houghton Centre for Diabetes & Endocrinology

Y Pinchevsky - 2018 - wiredspace.wits.ac.za
Introduction: With the realities of resource constraints existing in South Africa's public sector
and evidence of disparities in healthcare between populations, the study sought to compare …

Unemployment and subjective well-being among the youth: evidence from a longitudinal study in Poland

M Rokicka, M Palczyńska… - Studies of Transition States …, 2018 - ceeol.com
The main aim of this paper is to investigate the impact of becoming unemployed on the well-
being of young people. Particularly, we examine to what extent this relationship is …

[PDF][PDF] Deaths of despair among non-Hispanic whites in the US: Differences along the urban-rural continuum

SM Monnat - 2018 - paa.confex.com
Over the past two decades, deaths from drugs, alcohol, and suicide (the so-called deaths of
despair) have grown to be a major US population health problem, particularly among non …

A Quantitative Analysis of Absence and Unemployment Rates for Managing Staffing during Economic Recessions

N Hoffman - 2018 - search.proquest.com
Leadership teams are responsible for optimum staffing according to the current economic
situation. Due to a recent economic downturn, service occupation leaders were found …